μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Holding up the roof. Fox pretends to be holding up the roof; hence cannot help the bear, who must do the threshing alone.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1251.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *Type 9A
  • general Dh IV 249ff.
  • general Krohn Bär (Wolf) und Fuchs (JSFO VI) 97ff.
Within the index

Filed under Holding up the rock. Trickster makes dupe believe that he is holding up a great rock and induces him to hold it for a while. (Sometimes steals the dupe's goods.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Fox pretends to be guarding the sky and watching the earth
Carried in tale types

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